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Cooking Up Achievement
February 21, 2011
Ahna Skop
2008
Demystifying Engineering
February 21, 2011
MONICA COX
2008
A Teacher’s Tenacity
February 21, 2011
RASHA MORSI
2008
Publishing, Rather Than Perishing
February 21, 2011
Kevin Cokley
Students
U.S. Banker to Match Immigrants’ College Savings
The group promises that if families save $1,500 by the time a child graduates from high school, it will match that amount.
February 21, 2011
Bob Hildreth
Students
Texas Poised to Pass Bill Allowing Guns on Campus
Texas has become a prime battleground for the issue because of its gun culture and its size, with 38 public universities and more than 500,000 students.
February 21, 2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Latinx
Helping Nurture STEM Talent Inspires Harvard Administrator
Native American scholar learned a great deal from his mother, whom he describes as an ethnobotanist who was able to identify and collect plants to use as food and medicine for her children and the family’s animals.
February 21, 2011
Lee Bitsóí
African-American
Islam’s Connection to Black America, U.S. Slavery Explored in Mississippi Conferences
More than three dozen scholars, religious leaders and community activists examined the influences of West African Islam on the world, how slavery has impacted American culture, and the ties between slavery and Islam.
February 21, 2011
Sylviane Diouf
Opinion
The Benefits of University-Public School Partnerships
At 6:52 one Friday morning last semester, as I was on my way to a local high school to meet my Foundations of Urban Ed class for our weekly field experience, I got the following instructions from one of my students via text message: Here are your lyrics for the rap. Memorize them and don’t […]
February 20, 2011
Sports
North Dakota House Panel Says University Must Keep Fighting Sioux Name
The House Education Committee voted to support legislation that says UND must keep its nickname and a logo that shows the profile of an American Indian warrior.
February 20, 2011
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Students
Campus Racial Flaps Dog Alabama Despite Progress
Months after the university unveiled a plaza and clock tower named for its earliest Black students, the campus was swamped with unwelcome attention after a White student was disciplined for yelling racial slurs.
February 20, 2011
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Students
Race Unknown
For a small but growing number of multiracial students, freedom means being able to identify multiple ethnicities, or none at all.
February 20, 2011
Bryan Lee
Opinion
Black History is American History
This past week, I made a guest visit (via Skype) in Professor Lori Patton Davis’ History of American Higher Education course at the University of Denver. I was asked to talk about an article that I recently wrote on stereotypes of Black college presidents. The article focuses on the origins of these stereotypes and illuminates […]
February 19, 2011
Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
John Kline
Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
Latinx
Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children
To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.
February 17, 2011
Kris Kobach
Students
Perspectives: Rest Stops & Scenic Overlooks – A Call to Professional Renewal
We need to cultivate a culture of contemplation and joy, urges George Mason University assistant professor.
February 17, 2011
Toby Jenkins
Home
NACE Survey: Better Job Market on Horizon for College Grads
The association’s survey, to which some 300 employers responded, suggested a 13 percent increase this spring in the hiring of graduating seniors.
February 17, 2011
Howard Job Fair Interviews
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